Wednesday, October 13, 2010

EVENT NEWS: How to Assess the Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus, a lecture by Richard Swinburne

Oct. 13, 2010, 7 p.m., Wallace All Faiths Chapel

Whether or not Jesus rose bodily from the dead remains perhaps the most critical and contentious issue in Christianity. Richard Swinburne considers the evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus and concludes that the evidence makes it probablethat God raised Jesus from the dead.

Richard Swinburne is a Fellow of the British Academy. From 1985 to 2002 he was Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford. He is the author of many books on the nature and justification of religious belief, and on other areas of philosophy including the philosophy of mind and epistemology.